Can't start the game

Post by **joehelmer** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:47 am

I got a problem with EHM. I can't even start the game, it worked fine yesterday, but not today.

I get this message when I'm trying to start the game:

http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... ic_id=1020

Anyone who can help me out?

Post by **Tasku** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:59 am

From what I gathered from the Messenger discussions we've had, I'd say the problem is with your puter in general, and not with EHM. You said you have trouble keeping resolution to higher than 1024x768, although you have a pretty new display driver, and when you changed resolution, you had the taskbar jump to a completely different location. And now a game won't start at all.

I'd say, you either have hardware or software problem. And most commonly it's software than hardware in these cases. Looks to me like it's your Windows that's acting up and needs a spanking.

Try reinstalling Windows - that should fix any related problems. Especially if you've had a few months since your last install. Remember to make sure you have nothing too important at C: drive first, so you don't lose it in the process.

Anyways... that was my diagnosis.

Post by **joehelmer** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:07 am

I got my resolution to 1280x800, the game wouldn't go windowed, then Shadd helped me to trick the game to be able to play in windowed mode.

The game and the computer has been fine until now.

And all the other games works fine.

I will try to reinstall the game after school later today. If it don't work, then I don't know what to do.

EDIT: I worked it out, I set the resolution to 1280x800, for some reason it had been changed from 1280x800 to 1280x760.

I can have been me who changed it though.

Post by **Tasku** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:11 am

The last time I had to reinstall Windows, my Half-Life 2 stopped working - all other games worked fine. And the computer was all slow and buggy. HL2 works just fine now and the puter is working all smooth again.

Such is Windows, sometimes you need a fresh install...

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:30 pm

It does sound like it was all tied to your drivers though. I'd suggest maybe rolling back to an older version of your video driver. Did you just update it before the problem occurred?

Post by **Tasku** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:52 pm

As far as I'm aware he had the same problem with the older and the newer drivers.

Edit: I means with the resolution, not the game...

Post by **joehelmer** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:47 pm

I remember now that I played another game in windowed mode and in those options I choosed 1280x760, so it must have been that game that changed the resoltution.